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Lot 018:
1. Admat Kodesh—Jerusalem 1913—including maps of the Land of Israel in color. Expounds upon the borders, the cities, and the holy places mentioned in Tanach, in the Talmud, in the Midrash Raba, and in the books of Josephus; by Yitzhak Goldhar of Jerusalem. With endorsements by rabbis of Jerusalem, the Grich Zonenfeld, Rav Kook, and more. Moth marks, stains, and wear over time, generally good condition. 2. Die Ershte Schrit fun Yishuv Eretz Yisrael (The First Step in Settling the Land)—published by HaMeir, New York 1918. Book by Yisrael Belkind about the activity of the Zionist organizations for settling the land of Israel. Book in Yiddish, with old pictures of Israel. Various stains, generally good condition. 3. Jerusalem von Sven Hedin, Leipzig 1918, book on Jerusalem in German by the Swedish researcher Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952) with photographs, illustrations, and maps of Jerusalem. Binding is a little frayed, various stains. Generally good condition. 4. La Terre Sainte (book on the Holy Land), 1867, about the journey of the priest Jean-Jacques Bourassé (1813-1872), a French archaeologist and historian, in Israel, with illustrations by Karl Girarda. Generally very good condition. 5. Booklet A Matna Fon Jerusalem (A Gift from Jerusalem)—Jerusalem 1933. A nice booklet in Yiddish, about the activity of the Torat Haim HaKlalit yeshiva in Jerusalem. With pictures of Jerusalem from that period. A few defects to the dustjacket, moth marks, generally good condition.
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